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This again grew out of the laudable desire of the duumvirs to acclimate in Weimar dramatic productions that had pleased the public in other climes.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

The municipal laws prescribed the election of pontiffs and augurs in common with the judicial duumvirs.

From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz

In a relief of the time of Heliogabalus a meteoric stone is seen carried in procession, preceded by duumvirs, lictors, &c.—an evidence of an Oriental cult practised in Aquileia.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

And then the duumvirs had their struggle with the infinitely little, and they fussed over this and that.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

A truce was sealed that day between Nono and the twins, though the duumvirs said never a word on the subject.

From The Golden House by Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker)